The Philips B3X85U radio, a 1958 from Netherland, from an auction in 2012, was sitting on the shelf waiting for its restoration turn. I decided to pick it up this month (Mar, 2021) to perform the service. After taking the back cover, which also contorts the radio underneath, I noticed that it was in pristine conditions, only with some dust. I started to test all tubes and caps. All tubes were with excellent emission, but the magic-eye that was replaced with a NOS. Unbelievable, but all caps, including electrolytics, were within the tolerance range. One of the two philips 8089D lamps of 12 V and 0.1 A was burned and I ended up replacing them with two of 14.4 V and 0.1 A. However, it lasted little, one burned after about 4 hours turned on. They were replaced again with two 12 V and 0.15 A dial lamps. They turned weaker, but they did not burn after another afternoon turned on. At last, I only made a detailed cleaning and the radio is working as new.

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